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Monday, June 2, 2014

May Wrap Up & P.O.M. Award

Once again in 2014 I will be combining my monthly wrap-up post with Kerrie's Crime Fiction Pick of the Month
over at Mysteries in Paradise. And...I'm falling behind on my GoodReads progress. Instead of being ahead, as I have been, I am now "on track." If I'm not careful, I'm going to get behind.... Here are the stats:

Total Books Read: 13Total Pages: 3448Average Rating: 3.73 starsTop Rating: 5 stars Percentage by Female Authors: 57%Percentage by US Authors: 64% Percentage by non-US/non-British Authors: 7%Percentage Mystery: 38% [I think that's the lowest level ever...]Percentage Fiction: 77%Percentage written 2000+: 46%Percentage of Rereads: 0%Percentage Read for Challenges: 100% {It's easy to have every book count for a challenge when you sign up for as many as I do.}Number of Challenges fulfilled so far: 10 (25%)

AND,
as mentioned above, Kerrie has started us up for another of Crime Fiction Favorites.
What she's looking for is our Top Mystery Read for
each month. In May, I read 5 books that qualify as mysteries. (Less than half! Hmmm, something seems to be amiss.)

Not really a stellar month for mysteries. But, as you can see, Josephine Bell just barely beat out the competition with Death at the Medical Board. So, P.O.M. honors belong to her in May.

It is
a typical Golden Age mystery with plenty of red herrings and
mysterious-acting potential suspects. Her characters are
interesting and realistic--the local inspector takes some time to warm
up to the "interfering" outsider and the interactions between Staines
and Wintringham reflect that.